The Vermilion Parish NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center presented their map to the Abbeville City Council, which would provide equal voting power to all residents, in an ongoing fight to ...

The Abbeville City Council will decide whether or not to approve a new voting district map at a future council meeting.

Vermilion Parish officials are monitoring weather conditions, providing sandbags and flood reporting numbers, and are not ...

A move to finally tie West Feliciana Parish’s land development code to a new zoning map failed by a single vote at a July 14 Parish Council meeting.

There are a few elections and several propositions on local Acadiana ballots in the October election; Mike Haik was elected without opposition to replace the late Bo Duhe.

The largest residential annexation in recent years in Sanford, but maybe ever, was approved 6-1 Tuesday, July 15, with Councilman Charles Taylor voting no. The Cherokee Land Co. and the Dalrymple and ...